December 2025 results, part 1
December became a month of large-scale technical challenges for our team. The volume of work performed turned out to be so significant that we decided to split our report into two parts.
The month for the NGO “B50 Frontier” began with the implementation of a priority technical task — providing the 79th Separate Air Assault Brigade with enhanced power supplies for drones. In November, we launched a fundraiser and promptly accumulated funds to purchase the necessary components for manufacturing 20 batteries.
This project became an example of effective international cooperation, as our partners from Germany took on the manufacturing of the FPV drones themselves, while our organization’s team provided the funding and production of high-capacity batteries.
The technical solution is aimed at enabling drones to cover significantly greater distances and carry heavier payloads. To maintain the momentum of the fundraiser, we raffled off symbolic prizes among donors — a handmade watch, a collection of war poetry, and a “Leleka-100” commemorative coin.
As of today, the production stage of the batteries for this batch of drones has been successfully completed. Throughout December, B50 Frontier volunteers worked on assembling each unit, ensuring high-quality connections and compliance with the declared power capacity. The finished batteries have already passed inspection, are fully equipped, and are awaiting shipment while our partners finalize the production of the drones themselves. As soon as the equipment is ready, the full sets will be handed over to the unit. Below are photos of the finished batteries, which will soon become the “energy” for Ukrainian birds at the front.
In parallel, in December, we successfully implemented another initiative aimed at supporting the “RIKO” unit.
Our volunteers, who have been assisting this unit for a long time with the maintenance of batteries for “Leleka” reconnaissance drones, found a way to rationally use resources that seemed exhausted. The guys “donated” their damaged drone batteries to us for testing; however, during diagnostics, it turned out that the internal power cells were still viable for operation. This gave rise to the idea of “repacking” them into full-fledged power banks and returning them to the unit as autonomous power sources for gadgets.
To complete this project, we announced a small targeted fundraiser to purchase the necessary cases and consumables for assembling six devices. An important part of this campaign was the support of our community: one of the previous raffle winners, Yuriy, provided shells from a Marder IFV as prizes for new donors. This continuity of support allowed us to quickly close the financial portion, manufacture the power banks, and hand them over to the defenders. In the photo, you can see the result of this work — finished products that are already helping soldiers stay connected and power their equipment in field conditions.
Another important direction of technical work in December was the production of specialized components for strike UAVs. Our volunteers prepared and handed over a batch of 100 pairs of so-called “whiskers” — contacts for FPV drone initiation boards.
These elements are a critically important part of the drone’s design, as they are responsible for closing the electrical circuit and detonating the munition upon contact with the target. Manufacturing such contacts requires particular precision, as the reliability of these metal wires determines whether the drone will trigger at the right moment and whether its use will be safe for the pilot during launch.
This assistance was directed to the OPFOR unit, with which NGO “B50 Frontier” shares a long and productive history of cooperation. Previously, we have repeatedly supported these soldiers by providing them with high-quality batteries of our own production, so manufacturing the contacts became a logical continuation of our technical support for the unit. Each such transfer increases the efficiency of our operators, who now have reliable tools for striking enemy equipment and manpower.
This is only a part of what we accomplished in December. We will soon publish a second article detailing other important areas of our activity and new achievements. While we prepare the rest of the report, the work does not stop for a minute. Next up are new requests and new challenges. Your support is the fuel for our volunteer engine.
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